Sentence \Sen"tence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing.]

1. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. --Dryden.

2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.]

--Shak.

3. To utter sententiously. [Obs.]

--Feltham.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)